Interview with a Post Oak Bank executive Nov. 21, 1991. Houston Post, Dec. 27, 1988.
Stanley L. Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York, 1990),
pp. 229-33.
See Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda (New York, 1984), p. 92.
Ervin Committee Hearings, Book 9 pp. 3441-46, and Report of the Nedzi Committee of the
House of Represenatives, p. 201, cited by Hougan, p. 318.
Nezdi Committee report, pp. 442-43, quoted in Hougan, p. 21.
Hougan, pp. 46-47.
Ervin Committee Final Rport, pp. 1146-49, and Hougan, pp. 131-132.
Al Reinert, "Bob aMonthly, April, 1974. nd George Go To Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble," Texas
The question of the Columbia Plaza Apartments is a central theme of Jim Hougan, Secret
Agenda (New York, 1984). We have also relied on Hougan's version of the Russell-Leon-Bellino
subplot described below. Hougan's book, aabout Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, and many others, is a convenient starting point for thelthough it studiously avoids drawing obvious conclusions
necessary metacritique of Watergate. By contrast, the Colodny-Gettlin Silent Coup (New York,
represents a step backward, away from the truth of the matter on numerous points.
Hougan, p. 324.
Hougan, p. 370.
Interview of Jerris Leonard with Tony Chaitkin, August 26, 1991.
Hougan, p. 374-375.
See Jules Witcover, "Political Spies Accuse Committee Investigator," Washington Post, July 25,
1973, and John Geddie, "Bush Alleges Bugs," Dallas News, July 25, 1973. See also Victor Lasky, It
Didn't Start with Watergate (New York, 1977), pp. 41-55.
Hougan, p. 376. Notice that the day of Leon's death was also the day that White House staffer
Butterfield told Congressional investigators of the existence of Nixon's taping system.
Ibid.
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 811.
Pincus and Woodward, Presidential Posts and Dashed Hopes, Washington Post, August 9, 1988.
Washington Post, July 12, 1973.
Sam J. Ervin, Jr., The Whole Truth (New York, 1980), p. 28.
